Have I gone Nuts?

[Ben Duncan]

Precisely, But I cut my teeth on 3B2, then the Motorola 3000 series back in
the Mid 19080's, and, I think they executed the init scripts in
order via the inittab with something like:


l2:2356:wait:/etc/rc1
l3:356:wait:/etc/rc2

Or to something of that effect ...

C M Reinehr wrote:
> Ben Duncan wrote:
> SNIP<
> If I understand your question, you're asking if the processing of run 
> levels is a fall-thru process. That is, to boot to runlevel 3, you first 
> execute the startup scripts in the rc1.d, rc2.d before executing the 
> startup scripts in rc3.d. If so, then I believe you are mistaken. It is my 
> understanding that to switch to runlevel 3, the system executes only the 
> startup or kill scripts in rc3.d (or, which ever run level you are 
> switching too). Also, as Net Llama just said, all of the directory entries 
> are symlinks to back to the init.d directory.
> 
> Also, for what it's worth, after Caldera self-destructed, I decided to 
> migrate to Debian. For an educational environment you might also what to 
> take a look at Linux from Scratch.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> cmr


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